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Hi Peter! I work for an American company and we have a distributed team of developers around the world (India, UK, US) and we don’t know if it’s legal for us to come together for a week or two in the states, to plan, bond but also work?

Thank you so much for your contributions.

The second part of that sentence, probably omitted by your boss “… play with computers. The same way we are charging our client for a highly unoptimised process where we charge by person/hour, don’t make it look like it can be done more efficiently or I’ll fire you”

My urologist friend has removed some of that everything out of those brave people’s bladders

The sad reality is buried under so many layers of derangement, I can’t really understand what exactly they are trying to solve here

That is unfortunately not trying to see the problem from the future hindsight. Which is the exercise that GP is suggesting.

I don’t follow this reasoning. The leaks were of internal but not secret as in “scandal” information.

“It’s too complicated to fix it” is a near cousin of “it’s too complicated for you to understand”, sometimes this assertions are true, but some other times are just driven by the person fear of change. In a chess move, when it has not a very obvious outcome, the ramifications are so numerous that only the keen eye of an expert with thousands of games on their back can predict how it is going to affect the game and ending. In fixing the academia publishing industry there currently exists 0 experts that can predict that so any random guy’s guess is as good as anyones

It’s a de facto rule, it’s up to a judge to decide whether a person had intention of trafficking when found in possession of narcotics, trafficking is the only criminal offence. It’s common believe that 2 plants are OK for personal use.

Stadia uses Opus as well

Mandatory mention to Louis Rossman right to repair campaign.

https://www.fighttorepair.org/

I was recommended by a friend to put anti bacterial and wash with cold water so clothes won’t smell and won’t loose shape or color. Changed my life.

Because the convention center might be one of the only source of jobs around

I’m a Linux and Mac OS user myself and I’m sorry to say it’s never as easy as that, there is a lot left behind and very difficult to know what exactly to clean up if you built and install yourself

This is IMO the most valuable reflection of the whole thread. It can be seen as morals are conditional for big tech companies and depend of arbitrary circumstances like location

You forgot the closing /sarcasm tag

The Native UI in React Native is where Native comes from in the name. Nothing to do with an electron app which is a full fledged browser with a node process attached to it. Not a fair comparison by large

It depends of where they find growth to be at

Same thing happens when you change the payment details on Amazon’s one click payment process. I have a household joint account card and a personal card that I use both a lot, tapping the right card or not the back button is extremely difficult because they dance for a bit before settling.

* I use the iPhone app

I would guess a FB employee is reading the thread

It is very unfortunate that Saudi Arabia is mentioned by all the supporters of human rights abuses as a benchmark, I don’t see how the absence of mentioning Saudi Arabia is conspicuous at all. The absurdity of it is that normally the countries compared with Saudi are allies [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_rel...

Just chuckled at this.

Which government? Which world?

> Firefox, arguably among the most "free from corporate greed" of the browsers, has now finally caught up to Chrome on stability and speed (in my experience)

I’m sad to say that I hope that was my experience, but I’ve being trying Firefox (again) for the last 6 months and I still manage to make it irresponsive while developing, and very slow when using plugins like dark reader. So I had to revert to Chrome but I’ll try again in a few months.

First thing it came to my mind in the beginning of the article was music, glad it did come out but would have liked more about it

In this particular case only Article 13 could be a problem, but it’s this represents the kind of wonderful things that are becoming impossible because of regulation, walled gardens breaking net neutrality, etc.

This is so much what the web should be that I almost forgot about Article 13, GDPR and so on.

> You tried to airbnb in India ? It’s probably barely passable in LA

yeah, rookie mistake, my first Airbnb, but probably the last too :)

> Hotels in India would be quite cheap with the American dollar

A good hotel (or BnB) in India is not particularly cheaper than in any other country, they tend to have more staff than needed and the service is crazily good when it's good. I've had to bounce back from supposedly good quality hotels, and expensive in relation to the average, to a hotel that would be considered expensive in London a couple of times before this incident. Obviously all depends on your hygiene and quality standards. But if you think that flashing some dollar will make a red carpet appear in front of you... probably is a good idea that you try for yourself to have the exposure that you might be lacking

It is true that you can find very cheap hotels, but let me assure you that you don't want to sleep in those.

correction: did the conversion wrongly, total was around $717, more than the half of it was laundry, they were expecting me in the lobby already. I was arriving with a new set of clothes and a new backpack with my laptop and chargers and gave them everything else including my actual backpack and the suitcase, they had to steam clean or wash more than 57 pieces in my luggage, charged me half price.

Also good to clarify that I paid premium money for a serviced apartment offered in Airbnb, was sold as luxury etc etc. And having no previous experience with Airbnb could not see any potential problem in the add, once there the place was filthy, weird red stains on the walls... Disgusting

Same, bedbugs in India, had to go to a proper hotel costing me more than $1000 between room and cleaning all my belongings, I take bedbugs seriously and didn’t want to bring any bug back home. I had pictures of the bugs and the hotel and cleaning invoices. They asked for a medical (!!!) report. Airbnb refunded me 1 of the 2 nights out of 7 I didn’t spend there. So Airbnb costed me more money than going directly to a hotel. Not to mention how distressful and time consuming all this was. I didn’t ever use Airnb before and I’m not going to miss them at all...

What happens if you are locked out of your Google account? This can happen for some silly reasons and some times without recourse. Will you lose your domains, effectively ruining your business?